རྒྱ་ཤུག

Tibetan

Etymology

རྒྱ (rgya) +‎ ཤུག (shug)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲa.ɕuk/
• Lhasa: /cə˩˨.ɕu(k̚)ˀˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲa.ɕuk/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gyac^v-xug
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /cə˩˨.ɕu(k̚)ˀˑ/

Noun

རྒྱ་ཤུག • (rgya shug)

1. (botany) various juniper species, such as the Himalayan juniper / flaky juniper (Juniperus squamata) and the Sichuan juniper (Juniperus saltuaria)
2. (botany) jujube, Chinese date (Ziziphus jujuba)

   Synonym: འབྲ་གོ ('bra go)

References

• “རྒྱ་ཤུག” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press. Page 255. →ISBN